Zhen Duo
珍多
11 years old
Kunming Zoo
Zhen Duo (珍多, studbook #928) is a male giant panda born August 4, 2014 at the Chengdu Research Base. Son of Qi Zhen and ...
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Kunming Zoo
zoo Kunming, China
Kunming Zoo, located in Wuhua District, Kunming, Yunnan Province, is one of the oldest municipal zoos in southwest China, adjacent to the 4A-level scenic spot Green Lake Park and the main campus of Yunnan University. Home to over 1400 individual animals representing 240 species, its collection includes endemic Yunnan species such as the critically endangered *Nomascus concolor* (western black crested gibbon), *Rhinopithecus bieti* (black-and-white snub-nosed monkey, listed as Endangered on the IUCN Red List and Appendix I of CITES), and *Elephas maximus* (Asian elephant), alongside flagship species *Ailuropoda melanoleuca* (giant panda). It operates under the supervision of the Kunming Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism, and holds formal membership in the Chinese Association of Zoological Gardens. The zoo's conservation work focuses on endemic species of the Hengduan Mountains and Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, with long-term collaboration with partners including the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda, the World Wide Fund for Nature Yunnan Office,
Kunming Zoo houses giant pandas under international loan agreement with the China Conservation and Research Center, as part of the cooperative panda diplomacy and ex-situ conservation network.
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Currently at Kunming Zoo
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Recorded moments
Archive timeline at Kunming Zoo
2016
Nov 17
Zhen Duo transferred to Yunnan
Zhen Duo and Mao Zhu transferred to Yunnan Wildlife Park (Kunming Zoo) — the first pandas to live in Yunnan Province.
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Aug 4
2015
Jul 26
In the library
Further reading on Kunming Zoo
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The International Studbook: How Big Data Prevents Panda Inbreeding
Every captive giant panda on Earth is recorded in a single global database — the International Studbook — which tracks lineage, calculates genetic relatedness, and determines each year's breeding recommendations. This article explains how studbook managers use population genetics software to maintain 90% genetic diversity across 700 captive pandas, making the panda breeding program one of the most mathematically sophisticated conservation efforts in history.
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The Giant Panda Genome Project: How DNA Sequencing Transformed Conservation
In 2009, an international team led by BGI-Shenzhen published the first complete giant panda genome — a 2.4 billion base-pair blueprint that revealed why pandas lost the taste for meat, how they digest bamboo with bacterial help, and why their genetic diversity offers hope for survival. This article follows the science from Jing Jing's blood sample to today's conservation genomics, covering TAS1R1 umami pseudogenization, the Illumina sequencing revolution, and what the genome means for the species' future.
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Panda Habitat as Carbon Sink: The Hidden Climate Value of Bamboo Forests
The bamboo forests protected for pandas store an estimated 2-3 billion tons of carbon across the Giant Panda National Park's 27,000 square kilometers — an ecosystem service worth $200-750 million annually in carbon sequestration alone. This article examines how panda conservation doubles as climate action, why bamboo forests rival tropical rainforests in per-hectare carbon storage, and how China's carbon market is creating new economic incentives for habitat protection.
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Coordinates: 25.0536 N, 102.7155 E
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About Kunming Zoo
Kunming Zoo, located in Wuhua District, Kunming, Yunnan Province, is one of the oldest municipal zoos in southwest China, adjacent to the 4A-level scenic spot Green Lake Park and the main campus of Yunnan University. Home to over 1400 individual animals representing 240 species, its collection includes endemic Yunnan species such as the critically endangered Nomascus concolor (western black crested gibbon), Rhinopithecus bieti (black-and-white snub-nosed monkey, listed as Endangered on the IUCN Red List and Appendix I of CITES), and Elephas maximus (Asian elephant), alongside flagship species Ailuropoda melanoleuca (giant panda). It operates under the supervision of the Kunming Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism, and holds formal membership in the Chinese Association of Zoological Gardens.
The zoo's conservation work focuses on endemic species of the Hengduan Mountains and Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, with long-term collaboration with partners including the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda, the World Wide Fund for Nature Yunnan Office,